Carolyn R. Hodges

Making Schools Work

Negotiating Educational Meaning and Transforming the Margins

Buch

When talking about marginality and otherness, one must always ask, marginal to what? Other to whom? Complex issues of identity construction have been the focus of research on students who, whether based on race, gender, class, or ability, define themselves or are defined as being on the margins of school life. Making Schools Work examines this question in its presentation of the results of a longitudinal study of academic achievement and pre-college enrichment. Discussions focus on how students construct their identities with regard to race because of the history of problems associated with race relations in educational settings. Using case s… Mehr

CHF 27.90

Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)

Versandfertig innerhalb 1-3 Werktagen

V105: Folgt in ca. 15 Arbeitstagen

Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Welch, Olga M.

ISBN: 978-0-8204-3981-5
EAN: 9780820439815
Produktnummer: 19040692
Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 101 S.
Masse: H15.4 cm x B22.8 cm x D0.9 cm 172 g
Gewicht: 172
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

The Authors: Carolyn R. Hodges, Professor of German, is Head of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures and Chair of the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. She is the co-author, with Olga M. Welch, of Standing Outside on the Inside: Black Adolescents and the Construction of Academic Identity (1997). Olga M. Welch is Professor of Rehabilitation, Deafness, and Human Services at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. She is the co-author, with Carolyn R. Hodges, of Standing Outside on the Inside: Black Adolescents and the Construction of Academic Identity (1997).